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Incorrect Authorization in GitLab

Type: advisorySources: Official CVE List

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 13.12 before 16.2.7, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.4. It was possible for an attacker to run pipeline jobs as an arbitrary user via scheduled security scan policies. This was a bypass of [CVE-2023-3932](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-3932) showing additional impact.

Products
GitLab
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2023-5009
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 05:27 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Incorrect Authorization in GitLab

core-cve · Original source

Published 19 Sept 2023, 07:01 UTC

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 13.12 before 16.2.7, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.4. It was possible for an attacker to run pipeline jobs as an arbitrary user via scheduled security scan policies. This was a bypass of [CVE-2023-3932](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-3932) showing additional impact.

cve:CVE-2023-5009

GitLab

Fixed versions: Not specified

Complete source record
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